Catch the NFL Playoffs on Paramount+ this weekend January 11

**2024 NFL Wild Card Weekend: What You Need to Know About the Playoff Schedule** As the 2024 NFL season wraps up, the intensity only rises with the arrival of the playoffs. Starting this upcoming weekend, the Wild Card round will feature some of the most exciting matchups as teams battle it out for a spot in the Divisional Round. The NFL has just released the full playoff schedule, including the kickoff times and broadcast details, so fans can plan ahead for the action-packed weekend. Chargers vs. Texans: A Thrilling Opening to the 2024 Playoffs The first game of the Wild Card weekend will be a highly anticipated matchup between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Houston Texans**. This exciting contest will be the perfect way to start the postseason, as both teams are looking to make their mark in the playoffs after solid regular seasons. **Date:** Saturday, January 11, 2024   **Time:** 4:30 PM ET   **Broadcast:** CBS, Paramount Plus   **NFL Playo...

'Lioness' Promotes Thad Luckinbill To Series Regular For Season 2

 


Have some pride, Thad Luckinbill, you’ve been promoted! The longtime The Young and the Restless cast member will now have a bigger place in the cast of Paramount+ original series Lioness, fka Special Ops: Lioness as he has been upped to series regular after recurring as CIA Agent Kyle during its first season.

Along with his three stints as J.T. Hellstrom on the soap since 1999 (the latest being last year), this is seemingly otherwise his first series regular role since. His previous recurring gigs include MTV’s Undressed and The CW’s Nikita in their respective debut seasons, and ABC’s 8 Simple Rules in the seasons where it had a fuller title. He is also a producing partner at Black Label Media with such under his belt as as La La Land, Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Devotion, Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody, and Sicario. His own film acting credits include Just Married, Sleepover, and Reptile.

Renewed for season 2 just about a week before, Inspired by an actual United States military program, Lioness is about Joe, played by Zoe Saldaña as she attempts to balance her personal life and being the tip of the CIA’s spear in the war on terror and their efforts to thwart the next major attack. She is tasked to train Cruz Manuelos, played by Laysla De Oliveira, a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine recruited to join the CIA’s Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from withinz  The drama also stars Michael Kelly as Donald Westfield who co-runs the program with Nicole Kidman’s Kaitlyn Meade, and Morgan Freeman as Edward Mullins, with Dave Annable, Jill Wagner, LaMonica Garrett, James Jordan, Austin Hébert, Jonah Wharton and Hannah Love Lanier rounding out the cast. The series is executive produced by Sheridan, David C. Glasser, Saldaña, Kidman, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, David Hutkin, Jill Wagner, David Lemanowicz, Geyer Kosinski, Michael Friedman and Keith Cox.

Source: Deadline

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